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Engineering Students Towards Entrepreneurship Awareness

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  • Mohd Nizam Ab. Rahman

    (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)

  • Jaharah A. Ghani

    (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)

  • Ahmad Rasdan Ismail

    (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)

  • Rosmaizura Mohd Zain

    (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is often thought to be a likely subject for students in the business discipline but not for engineering students and this however is a fallacy as there is the need for Malaysia to identify an awareness of entrepreneurship in the engineering sector. At present the awareness for entrepreneurship is believed lacking in certain engineering courses and undergraduates do not really get much exposure to such enterprises. The purpose of this paper is to identify the interest among engineering students towards entrepreneurship. This paper discusses the factors related to the awareness of entrepreneurship taking into consideration the following different engineering courses, gender, family influence and race backgrounds. The survey results show that female, Chinese students and the Mechanical Engineering students are keen and geared towards entrepreneurship. These research results are very interesting as a snap shot study in developing and enhancing the awareness of entrepreneurship among the engineering respondents.

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  • Mohd Nizam Ab. Rahman & Jaharah A. Ghani & Ahmad Rasdan Ismail & Rosmaizura Mohd Zain, 2012. "Engineering Students Towards Entrepreneurship Awareness," International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, vol. 2(4), pages 272-282, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:hur:ijaraf:v:2:y:2012:i:4:p:272-282
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    Keywords

    Entrepreneurship; gender; race;
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    JEL classification:

    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

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